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...Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth). Domingo isn't quite high-strung enough for Mahler's angst-ridden emotional world, but he makes an impassioned impression all the same, and though he no longer has the brilliance and heft needed to sail effortlessly above the gigantic orchestra, who does? Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic provide solid support. A+ for effort...
...half time of Super Bowl XXXIV in Atlanta, the NFL and Disney will unveil "Tapestry of Nations," a global-diversity play narrated by Edward James Olmos and featuring aerial dancers, puppets, a multigenerational choir, a symphony orchestra, and music by Phil Collins, Enrique Iglesias, Toni Braxton and Christina Aguilera. Too much? Perhaps, though the quality of the Super Bowl's 10-min. themed extravaganzas may actually be improving. Some historical evidence...
...times during the performance, the orchestra's rhythms seemed jolted and their phrases choppy. In addition, the trumpets botched an entrance and the intonation between the flute and oboe was something less than desirable With the upper strings seated on the outside of the stage on both sides of the conductor, the imbalance of the string section was frequently overpowering.Traditionally, the cellos occupy the outer ring to the right of the conductor, and the Pops' alternate arrangement meant that the vocalists and soloists in the wind section were occasionally drowned out. But these were minor details, virtually forgotten through listening...
...like to be writing music definitely, but you can't really make much of a living that way. Maybe I'll be teaching somewhere or teaching a youth orchestra somewhere. But the composition I'd like to keep up, but using my other music skills. I guess with not going to a conservatory school, I really missed the intense teaching aspect. Here, music is geared towards scholarship about music rather than actual playing. I would want to live in some city with interesting musical stuff going on...New York, Chicago...somewhere in Europe...
...normally takes between seven and eight minutes, here is over in less than three. The sole exception is the uncut version of The Sorcerer's Apprentice extracted from the original Fantasia, in which Leopold Stokowski hypnotized an anonymous band of Hollywood studio musicians into sounding just like the Philadelphia Orchestra in its blazingly vital prewar prime. Even the ancient paleo-stereo sound track of that sequence has a raw, visceral impact missing from the glossy digital audio heard elsewhere in Fantasia...